may 2013 update
Hello! Welcome to the mid-May edition of the Fresh Expressions Canada update. Ascension Day is behind us and we find ourselves edging rapidly towards Pentecost. Many of us find it to be a time when we need to have our engagement with God’s mission reignited and reinvigorated by recalling the impact of the outpouring ...
april 2013 update
Hi There! I hope you had a wonderful celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. Easter is indeed a wonderful time. In a very real way as followers of Jesus we lead our lives in the reality of the resurrection, whether or not we are actively aware of the fact. Jesus is risen and continues to be so! ...
Nurture & Discipleship in Rural Churches
A new UK resource, which may well be of interest to churches in rural situations here in Canada,has recently gone live on the Arthur Rank Centre website at www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/publications-and-resources/rural-discipleship “Nurture & Discipleship in Rural Churches is an online library of good practice and potential resources for both ordained & lay rural church practitioners, and training or ...
Hour of prayer for fresh expressions of church 2013
Join us at midday (local time, wherever you are) on Monday 20th May 2013 to pray for those beyond the reach of the church as it often is, for fresh expressions of church and all who champion, lead or are part of them. You can watch an invitation to pray from ...
march 2013 update
march 2013 update “Green Shoots out of Dry Ground: Growing a New Future for the Church in Canada” this exciting new all-Canadian book is beginning to make an impact. Find out what prompted editor John Bowen to to begin work on this project here. online will go live on Thursday April 4th! “mission ...
february 2013 update
Green Shoots out of dry ground Growing a New Future for the Church in Canada is a new book of essays about the future of the church and its mission in Canada in the 21st century and John Bowen is the editor.Here are three things that John thinks make it distinctively Canadian: “First, I thought ...
january 2013 update
We’re back! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. Winter is here with a vengence in Montreal, with all its excitements as well as its challenges. I am looking forward to an exciting year of engaging with becoming a church shaped by and for God’s mission in the world. Two great ...
december 2012 update
news from the mission-shaping conversation, plus some exciting upcoming events. Two Vital conferences! Vital Church Planting, Toronto, Jan. 31- Feb. 2 Vital Church, Edmonton, Feb. 5-7 Keep Up With Us Facebook Twitter It’s not often that an institutional leader, more often than not regarded as a figurehead, takes a bold, visionary risk which appears to ...
“to reach new people”
Fresh Expressions Canada team members Jenny Andison and John Bowen were featured at a recent workshop on starting a new service to reach new people.
App-ventures in church planting
Ryan Sim (Ontario-based husband, father and church planter) in conversation with with ChurchNext presenter Chris Yaw, about his approach to planting expressions of church that connect with people who have no interest or involvement with traditional church.
Fresh Expressions Canada launches free resource for churches
After a year and a half spent developing and testing this new, made in Canada, free resource, “Reimagining Church:shaped for mission” is ready to be launched! Developed by Dr. John Bowen, Professor of Evangelism and Director of the Institute of Evangelism at Wycliffe College (University of Toronto), the five session course helps churches start the ...
fresh expressions canada november 2012 update
Hi there!The Fresh Expressions Canada team is very excited about the things that have happened this October. New website design, new update design, and best of all, our first all Canadian resource is launched (see below). It is certainly an exciting time as we seek to become a church both Jesus-centred and mission-shaped! We hope ...
Fresh Expressions Canada October 2012 update
october 2012 Hello there! It’s been far too long since I wrote one of these updates. My apologies! Summer is often a time for travelling and I’ve been doing a little myself recently. The recent Break Out Pioneer Gathering, in Swanwick, England, last month, drew pioneering people from a range of denominations, Anglican, Methodist, ...
mission shaped ministry 2012-13
This time around the mission shaped ministry course will be offered as an entirely online course to be called, appropriately enough, MSM online! The course takes participants on a learning journey as part of a supportive community, training them for ministry in fresh expressions of church. To find out more about MSM online! email msm@freshexpressions.ca
ChurchNext TV’s interview with John Bowen
John Bowen: Evangelism for Normal People Sure, it’s a cheeky way of putting it – but Wycliffe College Evangelism Professor John Bowen has some very serious things to say about how Christians witness to their faith. His helpful definition for evangelism is: ‘Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, helping people take steps toward discipleship.’ ...
MSM down under!
Keep visiting the Fresh Expressions Canada website for news on the upcoming MSM online course or email us at msm@freshexpressions.ca
Excellent new video
Summer is a great time for going on trips and meeting family as well as seeing friends old and new. Earlier this year, Fresh Expressions Canada’s Andy & Sue Kalbfleisch, spent some time in England catching up on some of the fresh expressions of church that are emerging there. Andy has produced an excellent short ...
Vital Church Planting Conferences 2013
Vital Church Planting Conferences 2013 • Toronto: Thursday January 31 to Saturday February 2 • Edmonton: Tuesday February 5 to Thursday February 7 Plenary speaker at both conferences • Bishop Graham Cray Team Leader for Fresh Expressions UK Click here for more details. Facebook Page
Something’s happening in Ajax, ON
Fresh Expressions Canada web manager and church planter extraordinaire, Ryan Sim, writes about a new project he’s been working on here. Scroll down to the article titled “Redeem the commute.”
Building Community – VCP 2012 Workshop by Simon Bell
This is a workshop given by Simon Bell at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2012. Length: 1h:03m Subscribe to all our Podcasts here
Serving Needs – VCP 2012 Workshop by Jon Osmond
This is a workshop given by Jon Osmond at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2012. Length: 1h:03m Extra Resources Slides (PDF) Subscribe to all our Podcasts here
